Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy with moisture from the Gulf, formed over Texas, moved slowly northeast over the Appalachian Highlands. The moisture cooled, fell in torrents on a land just emerging from one of its severest winters on record. Its hillsides were blanketed with wet snow, its streams and rivers jammed with thawing ice. The soil was deep-frozen, rock-hard. . The melting rains coursed off the Appalachian hillsides as if they had been sloping tin roofs. Monstrously gorged rivers roared like millraces, burst their narrow channels. From Maine to Kentucky a vast, swirling chaos enveloped the valley towns and cities...
...fighters. He broke the ice with a thump, announcing that he would run in the Ohio primaries (TIME, Feb. 17). As an attempt to force a fight on Candidates Knox or Landon, it was a failure. Both declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio...
...January all the little boys and girls who live behind Dunster House have been squeezing their papas' oil cans on eight little roller-skate wheels. All winter they have threatened to break loose when the snow melted, and last week, with the disappearance of the last chunk of dirty ice, the whole younger generation of Cowperthwaite Street and McCarthy Road swooped down upon Dunster's concrete promenade on masse. The roaring Spring flood of roller skates...
...walls of Manhattan's Squibb Gallery last week hung what was apparently a painting showing a number of little boys skating on ice. Behind this painting lay what seemed to be six window shades. Unrolled, they proved to be six separate paintings on specially woven flexible Dutch canvas that could be detached and placed separately about the walls. This device was the contribution of Artist Hilaire Hiler, 38, to the dilemma of art-lovers living in apartments which lack sufficient wall space to display canvases. Because the individual window shades are not unlike ancient Japanese kakemono paintings, Hilaire Hiler...
Russell Grinnell will imitate his New Bedford forefathers by entering the fishing industry; Gladwin A. Hill, Transcript correspondent, will deal in ice, coal, and whimsy; and Frank E. Sweetser Jr., another journalist, will become a stenographer. Then Roger W. Drury is attracted by writing, Samuel J. Silberman by farming, and William H. M. Glazier by forestry...